®f)e Clarion
Volume 51 Brevard College, Brevard, N.C.
Tuesday, February 7, 1984 Number 6
Susan Rogers Named Editor,
JillAvett Assistant Editor
Susan Rogers has been named
Editor of the 1984 Clarion and Jill
Avett is the new Assistant Editor.
These appointment were made in
December by Mr. Ken Chamlee,
Clarion advisor.
Rogers is a freshman from
Charlotte, N.C. She is a graduate
of Olympic High School where
she served as yearbook editor.
She was also an intern at WTVI-
Channel 42 in Charlotte and is a
Susan Rogers
Jill Avett
member of Brevard’s Student
Government Association. Miss
Rogers plans to major in com
munications at a four-year
university after graduating from
Brevard. She is the daughter of
Sharofl Harwell Rogers of
Charlotte and Robert Kent
Rogers of Marietta, Ga.
Avett is a freshman from Mur
phy N ^he is a graduate of
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was saiutaton'an and a member
of the journalism staff. She is one
of the two 1983 Angier B. Duke
Scholarship recipients in
Brevard’s freshman class and
works as a math tutor. She also
serves as Business Manager for
the Clarion. Miss Avett plans to
major in Business Administra
tion at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is
the daughter of Wally and Deane
Avett of Murphy.
“What’s Up, Doc?’
Faculty Focus
Doc Wood Makes College Fun
Why Not Spend Valentine’s
Just Listening to Music?
On February 14 an outstanding
trio of performers will present
Just Music.
The program will include a
variety of compositions which ap
peal to all musical tastes. Includ
ed are selections from Broadway
shows, sacred songs, operatic
arias, and piano compositions.
The group consists of pianist
Fay Adams, tenor George Bitzas,
and baritone Anthony Deaton.
Adams is Assistant Professor
of Piano and Suzuki Methods at
the University of Tennessee and
received degrees in piano perfor
mance from the New England
Conservatory and the University
of Tennessee.
Bitzas is Associate Professor of
Voice at the University of Ten
nessee and received the Master
of the Music degree from Con
verse College in Spartanburg,
S.C. She was also the recipient of
the Anne Dupont Peyton
Memorial Award from the Na
tional Council of the Metropolitan
Opera auditions.
Deaton is visiting Artist at Tri-
Countv Community College in
Murphy, N.C. He has had over
twenty major operatic roles and
move than 200 professional per
formances throughout the
southeast and midwest.
The performance will be held in
Dunham Auditorium at 8:15 p.m.
This is the first in a series of
stories on Brevard College’s
faculty members.
By Jill Avett
To the outside world, she’s
known as Dr. Clara Wood, but to
the informed she is the aspiring
comedienne, Doc Wood. Doc
Wood has been teaching at
Brevard for eight years although
she initially intended to stay no
more than a couple of years. She
finds “satisfaction in teaching
students who are not just English
majors.” Dealing only with
freshmen and sophomores also
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provides a challenge.
A native of western North
Carolina, Doc Wood completed
her undergraduate work at
Randolph-Macon Women’s Col
lege in Lynchburg, VA., and at
tended graduate school at UNC-
Chapel Hill. She has her Masters
and Ph.D in English.
Doc Wood enjoys writing
poetry, reading science-fiction,
and torturing her students with
puns. The following is one of Doc
Wood’s poems which appeared in
The Clarion Literary Supplement
in 1982.
Worldwork
The sky’s been scoured, polished,
starred
with silver chips. Unmooned, un
marred
ebony vaults the mountain ring.
Tireless, the wind descends to
bring
astringent force, to bare the
ground
of leaves October dropped and
browned.
One of her colleagues describes
Doc Wood as “the kind of teacher
who makes college fun. She’s
tough, yet she makes learning en
joyable through her wild humor.
Her concern for students is
geniune, and they must meet her
standards. She’s great to work
with.”
Up to 81,500 Awarded to
Southern Journalism Students
Trio of performers to appear at BC on February 14.
The Ralph McGill Scholarship
Fund offers scholarships for the
1984-85 school year of up to $1,500
dollars each to students planning
a career in journalism.
A number of scholarships are
awarded each year to students
who have demonstrated a long
time interest in the news and
editorial phase of newspapering.
According to Jack Tarver, chair
man of the Scholarship Fund,
May 1st is the deadline for ap
plications.
Scholarships, he said, are
limited to those young men and
women whose roots lie in the
South. Applicants must also con
vince the Awairds Committee that
they firmly intend to pursue a
career in daily or weekly
newspapring. Tarver said the
Awards Committee wants to give
scholarships to those who are
likely to become leaders in the
newspaper field.
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